Sentences with phrase «about epistemic»

There is disagreement about the epistemic status of climate models in the Climate Science community.

The disagreement is not so much about observational evidence, but rather about the epistemic status of climate models, the logics used to link the observational evidence into arguments, the overall framing of the problem and overconfident conclusions in the face of incomplete evidence and understanding.

Not exact matches

«They need not take their truth claims on loan from some other intellectual or cultural quarter, or regard the only alternative to epistemic servitude as isolation from the broader human conversation about what is true.»

This ideal of epistemic science originated in the classical experience of reason associated with Socrates and his disciples, especially those who gathered about Plato and Aristotle.

In reply, however, I asked Hick: «Why is [the deception involved in the deliberate creation of epistemic distance], which has resulted in most of the evils of human history, acceptable, whereas the deception about freedom, through which all those evils could have been avoided, would be unacceptable?

Or they can argue that the wave function is just a mathematical tool, which represents our lack of knowledge about the status of the poor cat, sometimes called the «epistemic interpretation».

Says Givens, Woodson saw the week as an opportunity to bring about «an epistemic shift in schools» — for teachers to illuminate the way racial power operated in America, and for students to reimagine the ways knowledge and history were constructed.

Her current projects include examining how students demonstrate care in the midst of knowledge - building interactions; exploring teacher thinking and learning about how to support students» epistemic agency in science; and developing software tools for analysis of video data.

We're talking about the Talebian «epistemic arrogance» that I refer to obliquely in the post.

Coincidentally, Paul and I have been having an offline conversation about the nature of journalism and the environment, and in particular the idea of epistemic journalism.

We argue that two main types should be distinguished: epistemic scepticism, relating to doubts about the status of climate change as a scientific and physical phenomenon; and response scepticism, relating to doubts about the efficacy of action taken to address climate change.

I'm arrogrant, but ultimately I favor a baseline epistemic modesty — a real consideration that we might be wrong, about a lot.

Yet many human problems thwart expectations required by epistemic norms of the sciences that determine when to publish conclusions about cause and effect.

They are also susceptible to epistemic hypocrisy, in short if you press them about their other beliefs you will find that they don't employ their ideal of knowledge consistently.

Regarding the epistemic levels, I have been thinking about Fred Moolten's concept of the level of knowledgeable non-expert.

As someone who does not even understand the word «epistemic» I find it a bit scary that we have all these discussions about average temperature.

When the story is about the complete absence of epistemic ethics at CNN?

If the intent of the epistemic level applies beyond weighing opinions, then it might be relevant to the level of courtesy extended, and the depth presented, in answering the concerns of people — people who express an opinion or curiosity about the substance of the science of climate.

Such claim is so strong that one could use it in an argument to reject just about any use of modality in expressing an epistemic state.

* As a relevant aside, among the epistemic and rhetorical battles we fight these days, about «fake news,» «alternative facts,» and the like, there is another problem that I think is both more significant and widespread and much less discussed.